Solapur Municipal Corporation (SMC) has launched an online GIS property tax payment portal for its citizens, as a part of the property tax digitalization initiative. The portal is based on CyberTech's GeoCivic® platform, India's only cloud-based platform for property tax digitalization. This move is aimed at providing a hassle-free option for citizens of Solapur to pay and view property tax details. Additionally, SMC officials will gain valuable insights on property tax collection throughout the city of Solapur.

On the launch of this online property tax collection portal, SMC Commissioner, Dr. Avinash Dhakane said, "GeoCivic® has simplified the process in order to smoothen tax deposit. This is one of the steps taken towards transitioning Solapur as a smart city." This implementation was assisted by Mr. Sachin Kamble, Nodal officer. Currently this facility is deployed for few regions in Solapur and will be extended to the entire city of Solapur within a span of eight days.

GeoCivic® Property Tax Digitalization platform is a proven technology to geo-enable and automate ULB's (Urban Local Bodies) entire process of property tax assessment, collection and management. Major states and cities in India are leveraging GeoCivic® platform to digitalize their property tax data and workflow, and will be a part of GeoCivic®'s success stories in the recent future.

CyberTech Risk Center created a buzz in 5th India Business & IT Resilience Summit, 2017

Mumbai, India – 5th June, 2017
CyberTech Systems and Software Ltd. (BSE: 532173; NSE: CYBERTECH), the leading Next Gen Spatial Analytics Platform provider, created a buzz with a dynamic presentation on 'Importance of Risk Alert Services in Business Continuity Planning' in the 5th India Business and IT Resilience Summit, 2017 at Mumbai. The presentation was held in the presence of the best practitioners and thought leaders representing the business, cyber security and crisis management community, from various countries. CyberTech provided in-depth understanding of the complete life cycle of Risk Alerts

CyberTech demonstrated the leadership in the area of risk alert services with real-life examples. The audience got a complete picture of how Risk Alert services helped all of its clients during critical situations like Chennai floods, Vardah Cyclone. The idea of Risk Alert services was an eye opener for attendees. Attendees were surprised by comprehensiveness, coverage and Real Time Alerts of various incidences. It has attracted tremendous response towards our offering. Positive word of mouth from existing clients also added more creditability to our product offering.

CyberTech also had the honor of sponsoring this event that was organized by Continuity and Resilience (CORE).

About CyberTech Risk Center

CyberTech Risk Center, a division of CyberTech Systems and Software Ltd., reports Pan India Incidences. It covers every significant global incident by collaborating with NC4, a world leader in providing risk management solutions. Its team of expert analysts uses a high-tech data mining engine to access huge amount of data from various sources. Data is later filtered, compiled and interpreted to provide 'relevant only' information to its partners with analysis of impact on their businesses. The partners thus get timely 'decision support' information to act and mitigate the probable risk with ample time in hand and ensure business continuity, employee and asset safety. For more details visit: www.cybertech.com

CyberTech Systems and Software, The Leader in Enterprise Spatial and location analytics, has announced the addition of two new members, Mr. Faiyaz Shahpurwala and Mr. Chris White, to the Advisory Board.

Mr. Shahpurwala is a global technology leader who operates with a start-up mentality; focused on building strong teams that are centered on a culture of innovation, with a record of creating, building and leading multiple services and product organizations. . He is extremely skilled in driving ideas from inception through growth to conventional commercial enterprises that contribute to the top and bottom seam.

Throughout his 13 years tenure at Cisco, Mr. Shahpurwala managed a wide range of responsibilities at leadership level. He headed the creation, development and implementation of Cisco’s Global Intercloud infrastructure, and built a team from zero to 600+ over two years. He accomplished 60% revenue growth in the two years leading Cisco’s Global Intercloud Infrastructure.

Mr. Shahpurwala is the inventor and patent holder of NatKit, a remote network monitoring tool. He is also on the board of several foundations.

Mr. Shahpurwala holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering from Western Michigan University.

As a Member of the Advisory Board, Mr. Shahpurwala will help CyberTech in transforming the platform architecture to support the non-linear growth of the company.

Mr. White is a transformational global sales and operations leader in the area of Digital Transformation and IoT. He is an expert in igniting high-growth businesses and transforming start-ups to multi-billion dollar global enterprises. He is a well-known industry spokesperson and has been distinguished as a digital transformation leader with forums like TEDx, NASCIO, IoT World Forum, etc.

In 20+ year tenure Mr. White has a transformational leadership track record, driving success within Cisco and 2 startups. He worked with Cisco Systems in various executive leadership positions and currently heads Cisco’s IoT Sales, Strategy and GTM. He created largest IoT solutions portfolio engine in the world, generating a $3B impact, growing at 50% Y-o-Y, with estimated business impact of $19T of economic value. He is also the Co-founder of Cisco’s Smart Grid, which evolved into IoT, with No. 1 position in the markets globally.

In 2013, Mr. White received the British American Business Award for Business Excellence. He is also part of Ingram Micro’s IoT Strategy Advisory Board.

Mr. White holds B.A. (Honors) in Business from the Kingston College of University of London.

As a Member of the Advisory Board, Mr. White will help CyberTech in Channel Sales Model development to achieve non-linear growth.

“Faiyaz and Chris are two experienced global leaders with a deep understanding of global business and experts in IOT and digitization opportunities with impactful outcomes for customers.” said Mr. Wim Elfrink, Chairman of the Advisory Board. “We are delighted to have them on board. They will advise CyberTech to achieve marketshare growth in selected GeoSpatial markets with non lineair growth business models”

CyberTech conducted an Industry Perspectives and Analyst Day 2016 with Wim Elfrink and Dr. N.L. Sarda

Board of Directors approved Wim Elfrink as Chairman of CyberTech Advisory Board in 21st Annual General Meeting of CyberTech

Images from the meet with Wim Elfrink and Dr. N. L. Sarda as special guests: Industry Perspectives and Analyst Day 2016— at The St. Regis Mumbai.

CyberTech built website rated amongst top support websites

Sitecore based Esri support website built by CyberTech is rated amongst top support websites.

ASP (Association of Support Professionals) recently announced their 2016 ratings for various support websites(http://www.asponline.com/). The CyberTech support website for Esri (http://support.esri.com) is rated as one of thetop support websites. Other support websites in this category include Cisco, Dell, Symantec and Red Hat

Esri is market leader in GIS with large numbers of products, which caters to 50+ industries and are distributed by 80+international distributors & 2000+ partners. The new support website empowers Esri to realize its vision oftransforming the legacy support website to an attractive and informative portal. The new responsive websiteenhances the user experience, effectively aligns with Esri product line and support processes while reducingthe support cost and call volume. The complex architecture of the site includes integrations withSalesforce Service Cloud, SGA, KBuilder, Interactive Chat, Product Catalog, just to name a few.

In addition to core Sitecore architects and developers, a strong team of BAs, UI/UX experts, integration experts,automation and testing specialists teamed up to complete the site in less than 14 weeks.

Integrated one-stop-shop to integrate with many operational business systems

Embraced mobility with responsive web design

CyberTech’s Risk Center Enabled their clients to Stand Tough even in Chennai Floods

Mumbai, 24th Dec, 2015.

A rainfall that seemed minor and harmless in the early hours of 9th November, 2015 later brought Chennai on its knees, hard-hit with the worst flood in the century. The devastation caused included, Loss of human lives, Property & infrastructural damage, Dysfunctional public transportation, prolonged power outages, broken communication lines, Non-functional financial centers.

Organizations operating in Chennai faced multi-level concerns during this time. Some of the primary challenges were safety of employees, security of key assets on ground, continuity of key business activities, business losses and more.

CyberTech’s Risk Center provided timely alerts & advisories for various incidents during this difficult time to its partners. It generated the meteorological advisory at 02.03 PM on 6th November even before the media sources. Risk Center further got the confirmation on the formation of depression and updated it on November 8th to its partners. It kept its relentless focus on the incident and generated 47 alerts till 7th December, 2015 which enabled partners to take timely business decisions.

Commenting on the incident,Alexander V Chacko, Principle – Business Continuity Management System, Infosys said “The advisories and alerts sent by CyberTech Risk Center was one of the key sources for getting constant updates about the incident which helped us in our business continuity actions”

Dharmendra Kava, Vice President, Business Continuity Planning, Yes Bank also commented “Based on the advisories and alerts generated by CyberTech for Chennai floods and employees feedback, Bank was able to take timely decision of closing branches that were severely impacted by floods and increasing strength at branches which were less impacted, reducing the impact on business and ensuring safety of staff”.

Vishal Bargat, Sr Vice President and Head-INDIA BU, CyberTech commented, ‘We are glad that our timely alerts for risk visibility solutions helped our clients including Infosys and Yes Bank for timely planning against incidents, thereby ensuring business continuity and safety of their employees & key assets during Chennai floods, we look forward to support our partners in future also”.

About CyberTech Risk Center

CyberTech Risk Center a division of CyberTech Systems & Software Ltd, reports Pan India Incidences. It covers every significant global incident by collaborating with NC4, a world leader in providing risk management solutions. Its team of expert analysts uses a high-tech data mining engine to access huge amount of data from various sources. Data is later filtered, compiled and interpreted to provide ‘relevant only’ information to its partners with analysis of impact on their businesses. The partners thus get timely ‘decision support’ information to act and mitigate the probable risk with ample time in hand and ensure business continuity, employee and asset safety. For more details visit: http://www.cybertechriskcenter.com

Mumbai, Maharashtra - 17th November, 2014 - Thane-based GIS firm CyberTech reaffirmed its leadership in building next generation, geo-enabled governance solutions by bagging the ‘Most Innovative Product’ award for GeoCivic® – its GIS based integrated product suite, at the ‘Municipalika 2014 – 12th International Conference on Emerging Trends in Sustainable Habitat & Integrated Cities’. The selection committee acknowledged the various modules of Geocivic® as highly useful applications, tailor-made to meet the objectives of the various functions of Indian Cities.

GeoCivic®, CyberTech’s flagship GIS-based application suite, is designed specifically to provide Indian Municipal Cities with an integrated Spatial Decision Support Engine. The product helps Government officials leverage locational intelligence to drive their mission-critical objectives, thus ensuring optimum and effective governance.

CyberTech was one of the key exhibitors at the conference, held at Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar, and Gujarat from 13th to 15th November 2014. One of the key sessions at the conference was delivered by Mr. Vishal Bargat, Sr. Vice President & India BU Head, CyberTech. The much appreciated session elaborated the need for innovative technology solutions to build smarter and more efficient cities. It also gave a good glimpse of how Governments can use GeoCivic® flavors which includes Property Tax Management, Road Infrastructure Management, Public Health Management, Public Safety and Disaster Management, Solid Waste Management and Citizen Complaint Redressal to build a seamless information infrastructure for optimum and effective planning and development. The selection committee appreciated the various modules and functions that build the technology backbone to enable smart city performance.

The ‘GeoCivic® - Smart City Governance’ booth attracted a sizeable foot fall at the conference, with many noted Government dignitaries showing keen interest in the live product demos exhibited by senior CyberTech consultants and domain experts. The presentation and demos showcased key GeoCivic® applications that can benefit a wide range of users including local and state governments, public safety organizations and citizens.

The conference, inaugurated
by Gujarat Chief Minister, Honorable Shrimati Anandiben Patel, saw huge participation from several Municipal Commissioners and eminent Government dignitaries from across the country, including Honorable Shri Shankar Aggarwal (IAS), Secretary to the Government of India, Ministry of Urban development, Honorable Shrimati Anita Agnihotri, Secretary to the Government of India, Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation etc. The conference highlighted the challenges of Indian Government organizations with several enlightening discussions on the way forward to efficient and smart governance for Indian cities.

“India is urbanizing very rapidly thereby, increasing the aspirations and needs of the citizens. Rapid urbanization creates many challenges for governments, while governments are struggling to do more with the less. This is the time when government should focus on expansion of technology and its adaption through application centric infrastructure. Smart solution like GeoCivic® can help governments to address challenges in city infrastructure management and help them to achieve smart governance for smart citizens thereby building a smart city” Vishal Bargat, who has been product owner GeoCivic® at CyberTech.

CyberTech, an Esri Gold Business Partner, listed on both BSE and NSE, has several offices across India and the U.S. The company has been building cutting edge, next generation GIS solutions for nearly two decades. Supported by a sizeable strength of more than 250 specialists in latest Esri technologies (world leader in GIS technologies), the company has numerous transformational projects to its credit including several success stories from India alone.

Many large Indian city governments such as Mumbai, Bangalore, Thane, Pune, Amravati etc., along with quite a few State-level Governments including Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, have already gone high-tech with GeoCivic®, with many other ongoing implementations at other cities such as Solapur.

CyberTech receives the Prestigious Skoch Order of Merit 2014

New Delhi, 19-20th September 2014 - CyberTech receives the “Skoch Order of Merit” in the 37th Skoch Summit on “Minimum Government, Maximum Governance” held at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi on 19-20th September 2014. CyberTech has received this prestigious recognition as “India’s best governance projects 2014” for the excellent project conceptualized and delivered for the city of Bangalore. The project has been awarded this appreciation in two categories: ‘Smart Governance’ & ‘Advanced Technology’.

The Skoch Digital Inclusion awards is a highly renowned and prestigious platform instituting India’s highest independent civilian honors in the field of Governance, Finance, Technology, Economics, and the Social Sector. CyberTech’s selection has come after a fierce competition among more than 1000 entries from across the country, including leading national and international IT and technology companies. CyberTech’s selection for this ‘Order of Merit’ speaks volumes for the customer acceptance and quality of its GeoCivic® solution. It is a reflection of the success that CyberTech has had at building market-driven solutions on leading Esri technologies.

This achievement will not only help in creating a stronger GeoCivic® brand, but will also create better opportunities for CyberTech to reach out to its target market and deliver better value to its customers.

Highlights

The ArcGIS software-based system helps users analyze pending projects and track them through completion.

With the use of GIS, tax revenues nearly tripled in just six years.

Bengaluru (formerly known as Bangalore) is the third most populous city, the fifth most populous urban agglomeration, and the second fastest-growing major metropolis in India. Its government, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), Karnataka, is India's fourth-largest local government.

A demographically diverse city, Bengaluru is well known as the hub of India's information technology sector and has shown tremendous growth in the sector, accounting for more than 35 percent of India's software exports. Because of its position as the nation's leading IT exporter, Bengaluru is regarded as the Silicon Valley of India. Furthermore, the city is home to many well-recognized educational and research institutions in India, and it is therefore also known as the knowledge capital of the country. So it is no wonder that Bengaluru is rated among the top 10 preferred entrepreneurial locations in the world (Economic
Times, April 2012).

Business Situation

Critical governance decisions being largely dependent on geographically disparate data, BBMP realized the importance of GIS for efficient information collection, management, and analysis. The city, having always been a promoter of advanced technology, was looking to leverage the best of GIS technology for its transformation initiative. Given this background, BBMP reached out to CyberTech Systems and Software Ltd., an Esri Gold Tier Partner headquartered in Trevose, Pennsylvania, with offices worldwide, including Thane West, Maharashtra, India. The company's long- standing partnership with Esri made the CyberTech-Esri combination the preferred choice for BBMP. It made sense to leverage the GeoCivic platform, CyberTech's ArcGIS software-based application suite that caters to the end-to-end needs of local governments in India, to drive the GIS transformation initiative.

The Bengaluru government identified the following functions as key drivers of the city's social and economic growth:

Property tax management

Road infrastructure management

Road cutting approval system

Optical fiber cable (OFC) license issue management

Citizen complaint redress

Birth and death registration

These functions were thus chosen as the primary candidates for the GIS transformation drive, and CyberTech helped the government capture the locational intelligence residing in the data.

Property Tax Management

BBMP has geoenabled all properties in its jurisdiction. CyberTech is now providing all the necessary tools to efficiently administer and monitor the collection process. The tools and analytical engine will provide the data in a GIS for optimal and efficient management. Through improved record keeping of properties and increased tax compliance, the GeoCivic framework will help BBMP maximize coverage and thus augment government revenues.

One of the major benefits of the system was seen by the significant increase in the realized revenues. In 2007–08, 740,000 properties were covered with revenue collection of 4.48 billion rupees. In 2012–13, after the GIS transformation, the figures shot to a total of 1.62 million properties identified with revenue collection of 13.5 billion rupees. The current target is 20 billion rupees.

The system also brings about the much-needed transparency in property tax levy and collection. Automated workflows increase process efficiencies, while advanced analytics and GIS reporting with detailed dashboards facilitate better-informed decision making.

BBMP, with the help of the system, can now also offer advanced services to help citizens view their property information and pay their property taxes online.

Road Information System

Through the GIS transformation, BBMP is better managing its nearly 13,500-kilometer road network, providing a more organized management of geographically diverse road information. The system provided centralized, dynamic registration of accurate spatial and linear locations of road assets, enabling easy recording and modification of data. These asset attributes can now be visually represented through dynamic, thematic maps to help provide more efficient planning and predictive road maintenance. This not only saves a lot of time and effort, it also gives better control over project execution and saves a significant amount of maintenance costs.

An important aspect of this transformation was the dynamic road history update and maintenance. It helped BBMP officials keep track of road asset history, including all spatial and nonspatial changes made to the assets so far, thus helping them further ensure accurate and timely planning decisions.

Road Cutting Approval System

BBMP, on a regular basis, also had to manually manage the permissions and monitoring of road cutting activities carried out by various service providers (telecom, electricity, water supply, etc.) and by private property owners. The move to GeoCivic and the ArcGIS platform automated and streamlined the entire road cutting approval and management process. Through high- quality vector maps, the system now gives BBMP an integrated, spatial view of the proposed roadwork and helps officials approve, monitor, and maintain road cutting activities. Through advanced GIS and management information system reports, the system also helps users analyze pending projects and track them through completion, consequently enabling better-informed planning decisions.

Optical Fiber Cable Management

Over the past few years, the city had seen a tremendous increase in the laying of optical fiber cables by various service providers. Earlier, BBMP engineers and authorities faced numerous issues in continuously keeping track of these activities. BBMP officials can now easily track and monitor such projects, thereby enabling efficient revenue assessment and recognition. The ArcGIS software-based OFC Monitoring and Tracking System receives applications from prospective firms, manages approvals, accurately assesses revenues, and automatically issues demand notices. It is also integrated with the organization's payment gateway, thus taking care of the entire process life cycle. With minimized revenue losses, this proved to be one of the major benefits of the GIS transformation.

Citizen Complaint Redress

BBMP now has an integrated geoenabled platform for easy and transparent citizen-government engagement. The application enables citizens to report and track service complaints and feedback through an easily accessible web portal. The system incorporates the geographic aspect of population spread to enhance and speed up the process of complaint redress and service provision. This not only made life more convenient for citizens, it also increased the public trust in the city government.

Birth and Death Registration

The GIS deployment also covered automation of birth and death registration processes with advanced thematic mapping and spatial analysis of the types and distribution of births and deaths across all zones in the city. This provided an important set of inputs for better public health administration in the city.

CyberTech Teams with NC4, further expanding its Security and Public Safety Offerings in India

CyberTech finalizes alliance with NC4, the world leader in risk management and situational awareness solutions

Mumbai, India – March 6, 2014 – CyberTech has partnered with NC4 Inc., a leader in revolutionizing safety and security, specifically to provide advanced risk visibility solutions to the Indian market. A key component of the alliance is the launch of the 24x7 “CyberTech Risk Center”. On Wednesday, 5th March 2014; CyberTech announced the national launch of ‘CyberTech Risk Center’ at Grand Hyatt Mumbai.

Given the increasing amount of emergencies in India such as terror attacks, riots, strikes, and political protests, natural disasters etc., Indian organizations today, need to be better prepared to protect their businesses, assets, and employees. Utilizing CyberTech’s expertise in Geographical Information Systems and NC4’s risk management experience, the CyberTech Risk Center focuses on giving geo-coded, real time information of emergency incidents that are likely to impact Organizations in India. Through this initiative, CyberTech extends advanced, predictive risk mitigation solutions to the Indian market, thereby helping organizations get early warnings of potential business disruptions.

“We are excited to work with NC4,” remarked Vish Tadimety, CEO, CyberTech. “CyberTech has been solving complex organizational and safety challenges for public and private organizations in India, for over two decades. With the launch of the CyberTech Risk Center in India, we bring NC4’s Global Risk Management Solutions to the Indian market and revolutionize how Indian businesses collect, manage and disseminate risk-related information.”

“NC4 has experienced tremendous global expansion over the past six years,” said NC4 President and CEO, Jim Montagnino. “Teaming with CyberTech will enable us to bring our safety and security solutions to an even larger market, while expanding our capacity in gathering timely, relevant intelligence that will benefit our customers.”

This partnership thus represents synergies of CyberTech’s expertise in geospatial systems for the public safety & security sector, and NC4’s world leading risk management expertise.

About CyberTech

CyberTech is a leading provider of next-generation Geospatial, Networking, Enterprise IT, and Public Safety solutions. Leveraging its deep geospatial technology expertise and over two decades of experience in solving complex geospatial challenges across the globe, the company delivers an unmatched range of integrated geospatial solutions. CyberTech’s innovative, IP-based offerings guarantee consistent quality and deliver significant business value for a range of industries including government, education, utilities, public safety, technology, telecom, retail, healthcare and manufacturing. To learn more about CyberTech, please visit www.cybertech.com or call +91-22-2580-9362.

About NC4

NC4 provides revolutionary safety and security solutions that empower government and business with accurate, timely and secure information. NC4 solutions are used in the public sector by, federal, state and local agencies in both emergency management and law enforcement disciplines, and in the private sector by companies involved in financial services, high-tech, insurance, manufacturing, aerospace and defense, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, as well as several other industries. NC4 takes a comprehensive and integrated approach to safety and security by providing: relevant global security and travel intelligence, analysis, traveler tracking, and real-time threat alerting to mitigate risks; a common operating picture for fighting crime and managing emergencies; and a platform for secure communication and collaboration. For information about NC4, visit www.NC4worldwide.com or call toll-free, 1-877-624-4999.